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Features

The untapped engine of real estate – why property management is no longer the second cousin to sales

How Highland Property is reshaping its rent roll with scale, technology and a standalone approach to property management.

Monika Doyle - Barry Plant Chief of Staff. Image supplied
Franchise News

Monika Doyle returns to Barry Plant as Chief of Staff

The newly created position is designed to keep the growing network aligned as it works through its next phase of expansion, according to Barry Plant.

Transparency strategy delivers five offers in six days for Urrbrae fixer-upper
Agent Stories

Transparency strategy delivers five offers in six days for Urrbrae fixer-upper

A transparent approach to a property needing some repair work and TLC delivered 40 inspection groups in two…

Nerida Conisbee on why this downturn is unlikely to become a GFC-style crash. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Why this downturn is unlikely to become another GFC

Ray White chief economist Nerida Conisbee models what it would take to match the Global Financial Crisis and…

Hotspotting Managing Director Tim Graham warns that “cheap doesn’t mean investable”. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Why cheap and investable are not the same suburb

Hotspotting's managing director explains the fundamentals separating genuine growth prospects from suburbs that are simply low priced, across…

Long-term renters are increasingly treating leased properties as permanent homes, driving demand for modular and multi-use furnishings as homeownership falls to a 30-year low of 62.7 per cent nationwide. Image: Lois
Industry News

Renting for life is now the plan, not the fallback, for many tenants

Modelling cited in the report suggests almost half of younger Australian households will still be renting privately past age 50 by 2040, reshaping how landlords should think about tenant retention.

Features

Nick Brown: A break lease isn’t a crisis – it’s a negotiation

Tenants ending a lease early is part of the job – Nick Brown on why the ‘break lease’ conversation is really just a negotiation, haunted houses included.

Features

Brock Fisher: Fix the holes in your revenue bucket before you try to grow it

Most agencies are missing hundreds of dollars a month in fees they never collect. From file audits to reinstating waived fees, here's where property management revenue leaks – and six ways to stop it.

Real Estate Agent Events

Happy people do more, and they love doing it

Walk into a property management business that's firing and you can feel it before anyone speaks. The energy is up. People are moving. The phone…

Partner Content

The thought we all have, but dare not say out loud

Partner Content

Three numbers that should make every principal uncomfortable, and one that matters

Real Estate Agent Events

Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points

Strategy matters, but execution is everything. Appreciated the insights from Trent Brewer on why the key to navigating any market comes down to one thing: matching the freedom of this industry with personal accountability. Image: Supplied/Lois

Freedom is the hardest thing young agents have to manage

After nearly 20 years in real estate, I have seen our industry evolve in more ways than I could count.…

Contributor

What really separates top agents in today’s market

Strip away the noise: why mastering communication, marketing, and negotiation beats every market shortcut

The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept

Hannah Gill argues real estate culture is shaped less by strategy statements and more by…

Contributor

How good agents learn from feedback without being ruled by it

Four practices for taking feedback seriously without taking it personally.

Contributor

The house is listening – and it heard your vendor report

More than half of sellers in a new US survey kept the cameras rolling during…

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AI & Technology

Elite Agent launches Saved Articles, free for every reader

Have you ever found a headline interesting at a moment when you didn’t have time…

Peter Schravemade and Antonia Mercorella

Proptech’s real problem isn’t the software, it’s the rollout

The biggest challenges facing Australia and New Zealand’s proptech sector are no longer technical. They…

San Francisco’s AI boom has buyers spending unprecedented amounts of money on homes – much more than sellers are asking for. Image: Lois

San Francisco homes selling US$1m over asking amid AI boom

San Francisco’s housing market has flipped from a city people were leaving to one where…

The proptech push to finally unify your real estate tech stack

The modern real estate office has become a complex web of disconnected systems. What was…

Which Real Estate Jobs Deserve Claude Fable 5’s $1,000-an-Hour Brain

I’ve spent the past few days testing Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s new top-of-the-range model, and…